Hello, I've had a starting website(blogger) that I reactivated recently after setting it up a few months ago. It hasn't been 'plugged' into most search engines but i'm getting to work on it after reading various forums. My analytics have been telling me that I have yet to recieve any google traffic(I'm averaging 80 pages views a day at this early point, mostly from social networks and backlinks. How long does it take for me to start getting some hits from the big G? I'd think the majority of my traffic should be from there. Its a videogame/humor blog. Thanks guys. I'm new to this, so any help is much appreciated.
There's no guarantee that you'll ever get any. Just because you put up a website, doesn't mean you'll get traffic, and certainly doesn't mean you'll get search engine traffic. You need to have site about something that people are looking for, that you are using the same terms as keywords on it that people use to search for those things, and that you've constructed in such a way that Google understands what your site is about and will consider it relevant to show as a listing to searchers.
There's no guarantee that you'll ever get any. Just because you put up a website, doesn't mean you'll get traffic, and certainly doesn't mean you'll get search engine traffic. You need to have site about something that people are looking for, that you are using the same terms as keywords on it that people use to search for those things, and that you've constructed in such a way that Google understands what your site is about and will consider it relevant to show as a listing to searchers. Thanks for the reply Magda. Anyway, I believe I'm attempting a hybrid humor website. This is a little different due to it being broader, so I've been attempting to find out what a site like mine specifically caters to. So far its videogame news, funny and cute pictures, cool stuff to buy, and other things..Its a variety website for a niche of people with certain tastes(geekier). My last attempt was a snack review blog, which was getting around 500-600 unique views a day until I retired it. It was super specific, so the traffic seemed to come naturally. This is a different beast altogether, and I'm guessing it will take alot more SEO to get it noticed. I'm up to 80-100 views a day, but only about 2-4% of that traffic is google according to analytics. So I don't know where to start at this point in terms of getting google to pay attention. Someone point me the right way and I'll do my due diligence.
For SEO guides your best starters are http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo/ http://guides.seomoz.org/chapter-1-how-search-engines-operate http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf None of these are a quick read. If you read around these forums you will find people giving you 5 point bullet points along the lines of 'get backlinks' 'content is king' 'target your keywords'. These points are sort of right, but frankly, mostly for the sort of site you had before - some sites you really don't have to do much to to get some search engine traffic.
you will get result in one month also if you had alread done good submission otherwise 2 months needed.
What I did was login to my google account and register my website with them. Also, beyond that just start to create some backlinks. One link that I put in one blog last year, sent no traffic for about 9 months, now suddenly most of my traffic is coming from that
Thanks guys, this is some awesome info. I created some new backlinks following some 'hot lists' on this website for backlinks and I'm starting to see the traffic increase slowly. Did some keyword optimization last night and submitted to a few new directories. Good stuff!
as long as you have some pages indexed in google and hove some meaningful search terms in your pages, you should start to received traffic (how much depends on how many pages indexed, competition, how often keywords searched, and your ranking for those keywords)
You will only get search engine traffic if you have good SERPs for phrases that actually get searched. You CAN get traffic very quickly from search engines. But for most blogs, unless you're writing about things that interest MANY people, and you index well for relevant phrases, there are better ways to drive traffic.
Have you checked Webmaster Tools to see what's been indexed? If you don't have an account there get a Google Webmaster Tools ID. Within that service you'll see what's been indexed, keywords being used, problems, etc.
your site pages should be indexed in google engine,for that you have to play more with seo to increase your site performance
Make sure your site's home page and sub pages (but not privacy policy, terms etc) are as relevant to the target keywords as possible, since g ranks based mostly on relevancy. Backlinks become all the more powerful if linking to a more relevant page and you don't need as many of them either. Just target relevancy and higher rankings and search traffic will follow.
An interesting question and you have a lot to learn with this forum being a good start. The important thing about traffic is that it is only relevant if it's targeted traffic and the visitors to your site are taking the actions you want.
In order to get traffic from big G, you should be on the first page for certain keywords, or even better in the first 3 results if the keyword is not searched alot. You should start building links with keywords in them, ranking for certain keywords is the only way to get traffic from google.
Thanks guys. It'll take a few months and some hard work, but the links and advice you guys shared have been great. I'll be working on SEO and avoid monetization to keep the blog as pristine and user friendly for now. I did an adsense test and I get the impression that google has NO IDEA what this blog is about yet at this early stage. The ads were random and nontargeted. When I had my very niche-y snack review related blog, the ads and traffic were not hard to come by seeing that it wasn't a populated genre. I guess thats what I'll have to work towards in the next few months.
Very useful and meaning discussion for the benefit of newbies. It clears many doubts in the mind about the subject matter.